L. E. Modesitt Quotes
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
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I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.
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Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!
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Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles especially strong. Job growth has bolstered household income, and lower energy prices have left consumers with more to spend on other goods and services.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
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I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
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Just because we're on USA, we didn't necessarily have to be the USA brand.
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I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.
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Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.
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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
